Tegan Masters is dead. She's sixteen and she's dead and she's standing in the parking lot of the Marybelle Motor Lodge, the single most depressing motel in all of New Jersey and the place where Tegan spent what she remembers as the worst weekend of her life. Tegan isn't happy about this.

In the front office, she meets Zelda, an annoyingly cute – and snarky – teen angel, who explains that Tegan is in heaven, where every person inhabits an exact replica of their happiest memory. Tegan is definitely not happy about this. At all. But reconciling with her past might just lead Tegan, and Zelda, to a happily-ever-afterlife …